Comments on: Fashion Challenge #4: Sexy Safari

By: Pearlie P

Pearlie P — Thu, 17 May 2007 22:33:06 +0000

wow thats really sad! i hadn’t known about these contests until this one and decided to give it a shot. the first vote i got was 1 star..okay my entry might not be the best but i dont think its that terrible!

well i didn’t vote anyone lower than a 3. but i don’t think my votes made much of a difference seeing some people have as low as 1′s. maybe they should make you sign up before you can cast a vote or something. oh wait..then people will be making 100s of accounts. lol!

By: Hedwig Martynov

Hedwig Martynov — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:11:59 +0000

Are the finals up yet?

By: Cristalle Karami

Cristalle Karami — Sat, 12 May 2007 12:37:57 +0000

Really, should we be surprised? It’s just like best in [whatever] contests in-world: either a popularity contest, or semi-ruthed noobs win bc people are unwilling to vote for people who are deserving.

By: Hedwig Martynov

Hedwig Martynov — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:09:48 +0000

On the topic of low-rating spam…

I’ve been experiencing it, too. A bombardment of 2.0 or less ratings.

I think it may be time to assemble a non-biased panel of judges to judge these contests.

By: Celebrity Trollop

Celebrity Trollop — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:31:22 +0000

Hedwig,

I sent you a separate email — I didn’t get your email to me, unfortunately.

By: Celebrity Trollop

Celebrity Trollop — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:30:34 +0000

Cristiano and I have some ideas we’re working on to help counteract this. Some of them should be rolled out in the next Snapzilla update. (I don’t know when that will be, but it encourages me.)

By: Morgana Fillion

Morgana Fillion — Thu, 10 May 2007 11:57:47 +0000

This is the only the second time I’ve submitted so I have no idea what scores usually look like – I just figured, since all the scores are in the same range, that this was a tough crowd!

I hope the contests stay – for me, I just like the pretty pictures, the creativity of combining elements from different sets to make a unique outfit, and of course, seeing more stuff to go buy. I love getting all that from people who are not part of the usual fashion-review circuit (love them, too, but this is a wider range of style preferences).

Don’t worry about the votes, just have fun with it. I didn’t even tell my friends I was doing this, to avoid positive ballot stuffing – but in the end, it’s not such a big deal if it’s stuffed to beef up a score or to keep it down. we still all get the pretty pictures and shopping ideas.

By: Gillian Waldman

Gillian Waldman — Thu, 10 May 2007 10:48:47 +0000

I saw and commented on the all the catty low ratings on Carissa’s entry when I saw it. I decided not to enter because I already get a ton of negative ratings from the masked 1 star bandit on Snapzilla ROFL….don’t need any more I still enjoy the contests but the voting is obviously not working – time perhaps to make it purely about what the ladies of Second Style like perhaps? Don’t know but I have often thought the ratings at Snapzilla were just not working anymore.

By: MelanieKidd

MelanieKidd — Thu, 10 May 2007 02:05:01 +0000

You know what? I wasn’t going to enter this challenge because of the whole scoring thing… but screw it, I want an excuse to dress up and take pictures. ^_^ If some loser wants to give me a hundred low scores, then so be it, I’m not going to regret missing this challenge like I did the last one.

By: Hedwig Martynov

Hedwig Martynov — Thu, 10 May 2007 01:53:07 +0000

I sent you an email regarding the fashion challenge. I, unfortunatly, am I stupid noob who read the postcard part a little too late and mistakenly uploaded the picture to my computer instead. Hopefully, you can get back to me on this!